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War, Poetry, Mourning: Darwish, Adonis, Iraq
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
... indicated. engaging violence
War, Poetry, Mourning:
Darwish, Adonis, Iraq
Nouri Gana
O my friend,
There’s no room for the poem...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 249–259.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Claire Beckett; Nuit Banai This essay examines Claire Beckett’s Simulating Iraq (2007–9), a series of large-format color photographs that documents army personnel and civilian workers training American troops for military deployment by staging the theater of operations awaiting them. At the heart...
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Pleasures of the Polemic
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 561–571.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Gearóid Ó Tuathail This review critiques Afflicted Powers on three fronts: a flawed conception of politics as spectacle, an overly functionalist account of the Iraq war, and base determinism in its reasoning about American foreign policy. Duke University Press 2008...
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The Spectacle Today: A Response to RETORT
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 573–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
...W. J. T. Mitchell This essay is a critique of Afflicted Powers , the RETORT collective's assessment of the state of culture and politics in the period of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Duke University Press 2008 The Spectacle Today...
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Extermination as Protection: Humanitarian Desire in the News from the Battle for Mosul
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 209–229.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Isaac Blacksin Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with international war reporters, this article interrogates dominant meanings for warfare and for the civilian death that results. It takes as a case study the 2016 to 2017 battle for Mosul, Iraq. Lauded reportage from Mosul revealed...
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“Disappearing” Iraqis
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 89–92.
Published: 01 May 1992
...-for-war Hitler analogy
in particular. Yet to analogize Hussein as Hitler is
profoundly Orientalist. Ignorant about Iraq,
Americans were invited to fall back on a European
historical analogy. The presence of “Hitler” only...
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War Miscellany
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 159–164.
Published: 01 May 1991
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and Arab nationalism-has gotten little attention.
Many Arabs, for example, oppose Iraq’s aggression and support a total withdrawal of
Iraqi troops, yet strongly oppose a U.S. attack. I include myself in this group, as I do
among those Americans who feel that our military deployment goes far...
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Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 499–520.
Published: 01 September 2007
... for the last item on the agenda. The subject was the state of operations in Iraq.
Eight days earlier, American and British troops had begun their bombardment of
the country, ending the long run-up to a war that had been declared in a climate...
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Translation in Wartime
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 239–246.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Bush’s remarks
above, the current U.S. occupation of Iraq. Since the start of the war, a number
of news accounts have appeared about the place, at once indispensable and trou-
bling, of Arabic-speaking translators, both Iraqi nationals...
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Seeing and Believing: On Photography and the War on Terror
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 261–281.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a videotape showing an American soldier
shooting an Iraqi man in Fallujah in 2004, the documentary filmmaker Errol
Morris observed: “For many people, the interpretation of this videotape will
devolve into general questions about Iraq. People will interpret this videotape
according to their ideological...
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Mobilizing Fictions: The Gulf War, the Media and the Recruitment of the Spectator
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... networks who declined to broadcast uncensored footage taken deep inside Iraq
at the height of the U.S.-led allied air war. A 28-minute version of the material was aired
by WNET Channel 13 in New York, while hundreds of copies are circulating indepen-
dently. For more, see Dennis Bemstein, “Fed...
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Time and the Television War
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 May 1992
... TIME
Although television had played a central role in the Gulf crisis since
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, few of us were prepared for
the television war which began with stunning effect on the evening of 16
January 1991. News of allied air attacks reached the wired world...
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The Totality for Grownups
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 583–593.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in Iraq was instigated chiefly (or even solely) as a bid for direct control
over Mesopotamian crude. While recognizing the significance of oil to the war
equation, our argument in the chapter’s closing stages is that the invasion and
occupation of Iraq — insofar as materialist explanations have...
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The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Public Sphere
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 487–498.
Published: 01 September 2005
... more about Iraq’s
nuclear ambitions (which, in 2003, were the target of the first explicit policy of
preemptive warfare in U.S. history) than those of the United States. Most would
be surprised to learn that the 1990s witnessed not a post–Cold War movement
away from nuclear weapons but rather...
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Surveillant Witnessing: Satellite Imagery and the Visual Politics of Human Rights
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 469–500.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the UN Security Council and, at least implicitly, brought such questions to the fore. Powell came to the Security Council to press a case against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. He accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction, violating UN resolutions, and threatening global order. In what might...
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Editor's Letter
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 225–226.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., the Republican defeat at the 2006 midterm elections immedi-
ately generated proposals for partial or complete military retraction from Iraq, but
“staying the course,” pulling out, or any intermediate hypothetical action raised
questions concerning risk and responsibility: Do Iraq’s apparently intractable...
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Two Poems
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 239–242.
Published: 01 May 2022
... payments. 1. The WikiLeaks footage is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 . Haditha, Al-Anbar Province, Iraq The twenty-four corpses are at home in The Martyrs’ Graveyard Graffiti on a wall in one of the deserted homes of one of the families reads: “Democracy...
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“Sensitive but Unclassified”: Secrecy and the Counterterrorist State
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 433–463.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Nations Security Council. GlobalSecurity.org , February 5. www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un-17300pf.htm . Pozen, David. 2005 . The mosaic theory, national security, and the freedom of information act. Yale Law Journal 115 : 628 – 79. Prados, John...
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Nine Days into the War
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 121–133.
Published: 01 May 1991
... that there are any
people in Iraq. There is Saddam Hussein and there’s his my,perhaps, and
there are these strategic installations, but what of the 18 million people
there? In the fnst week there have already been four times as many bombing
sorties as the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi. Much more than...
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Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 May 1992
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Arabic- and French-language news stations.
(French): We are the strongest, there is nothing left of Iraq!
(Arabic): Iraq still stands!
(French): 80% of Iraq’s military potential has been destroyed!
(Arabic): The Iraqi army is not yet destroyed!
(French): We love the Arabs...
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